diff --git a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/client_app.py.tpl b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/client_app.py.tpl
index 19d1e20bacc..415898ba117 100644
--- a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/client_app.py.tpl
+++ b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/client_app.py.tpl
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import os
 import warnings
-from collections import OrderedDict
 from typing import Dict, Tuple
 
 import torch
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@ from flwr.common import Context
 from flwr.common.config import unflatten_dict
 from flwr.common.typing import NDArrays, Scalar
 from omegaconf import DictConfig
-from peft import get_peft_model_state_dict, set_peft_model_state_dict
+
 from transformers import TrainingArguments
 from trl import SFTTrainer
 
@@ -20,7 +19,12 @@ from $import_name.dataset import (
     load_data,
     replace_keys,
 )
-from $import_name.models import cosine_annealing, get_model
+from $import_name.models import (
+    cosine_annealing,
+    get_model,
+    set_parameters,
+    get_parameters,
+)
 
 # Avoid warnings
 os.environ["TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM"] = "true"
@@ -92,20 +96,6 @@ class FlowerClient(NumPyClient):
         )
 
 
-def set_parameters(model, parameters: NDArrays) -> None:
-    """Change the parameters of the model using the given ones."""
-    peft_state_dict_keys = get_peft_model_state_dict(model).keys()
-    params_dict = zip(peft_state_dict_keys, parameters)
-    state_dict = OrderedDict({k: torch.Tensor(v) for k, v in params_dict})
-    set_peft_model_state_dict(model, state_dict)
-
-
-def get_parameters(model) -> NDArrays:
-    """Return the parameters of the current net."""
-    state_dict = get_peft_model_state_dict(model)
-    return [val.cpu().numpy() for _, val in state_dict.items()]
-
-
 def client_fn(context: Context) -> FlowerClient:
     """Create a Flower client representing a single organization."""
     partition_id = context.node_config["partition-id"]
diff --git a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/models.py.tpl b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/models.py.tpl
index a548ba9abee..3f3f95c8b8e 100644
--- a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/models.py.tpl
+++ b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/models.py.tpl
@@ -4,10 +4,18 @@ import math
 
 import torch
 from omegaconf import DictConfig
-from peft import LoraConfig, get_peft_model
+from collections import OrderedDict
+from peft import (
+    LoraConfig,
+    get_peft_model,
+    get_peft_model_state_dict,
+    set_peft_model_state_dict,
+)
 from peft.utils import prepare_model_for_kbit_training
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, BitsAndBytesConfig
 
+from flwr.common.typing import NDArrays
+
 
 def cosine_annealing(
     current_round: int,
@@ -54,3 +62,17 @@ def get_model(model_cfg: DictConfig):
         model.config.use_cache = False
 
     return get_peft_model(model, peft_config)
+
+
+def set_parameters(model, parameters: NDArrays) -> None:
+    """Change the parameters of the model using the given ones."""
+    peft_state_dict_keys = get_peft_model_state_dict(model).keys()
+    params_dict = zip(peft_state_dict_keys, parameters)
+    state_dict = OrderedDict({k: torch.Tensor(v) for k, v in params_dict})
+    set_peft_model_state_dict(model, state_dict)
+
+
+def get_parameters(model) -> NDArrays:
+    """Return the parameters of the current net."""
+    state_dict = get_peft_model_state_dict(model)
+    return [val.cpu().numpy() for _, val in state_dict.items()]
diff --git a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/server_app.py.tpl b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/server_app.py.tpl
index 586b929be06..7d4de0f73db 100644
--- a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/server_app.py.tpl
+++ b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/code/flwr_tune/server_app.py.tpl
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ from flwr.common.config import unflatten_dict
 from flwr.server import ServerApp, ServerAppComponents, ServerConfig
 from omegaconf import DictConfig
 
-from $import_name.client_app import get_parameters, set_parameters
-from $import_name.models import get_model
+from $import_name.models import get_model, get_parameters, set_parameters
 from $import_name.dataset import replace_keys
 from $import_name.strategy import FlowerTuneLlm
 
diff --git a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
index 5046a6f89f2..8c15739e92f 100644
--- a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
+++ b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 description = ""
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 dependencies = [
-    "flwr[simulation]>=1.10.0",
+    "flwr[simulation]>=1.11.1",
     "flwr-datasets>=0.3.0",
     "trl==0.8.1",
     "bitsandbytes==0.43.0",